The directorial debut of Australian actor Joel Edgerton, The Gift is a pleasant surprise. Well, I say pleasant. It’s a taut psychological thriller that serves up a series of sickening jolts and a queasy sense of menace. But given the rather familiar premise — a young married couple, Simon (Jason

Sophie Hyde makes an accomplished fiction feature debut with 52 Tuesdays. Formally playful and thematically complex, the film follows the tumultuous relationship between a teenage girl, Billie (Tilda Cobham-Hervey, mesmerising) and her mother, James (Del Herbert-Jane) who is transitioning from

The culmination of 15 years of artistic toil for Russian auteur Aleksei German, Hard To Be A God is an adaptation of a novel by the Strugatsky brothers (they also wrote the book that became Tarkovsky’s Stalker). German died before it was completed; it was finished by his wife and son, Aleksei

Watch our film critics Kate Muir and Ed Potton discuss the latest big releases. Tom Cruise takes on the Syndicate in his fifth Mission: Impossible outing. He’s impressive doing his own stunts, but how’s his acting? And Rebecca Ferguson is smoking-hot as Ilsa Faust, a tough female agent, but does

Arnold Schwarzenegger v zombies. You probably think you know what to expect from the premise of Maggie. In fact, this feature debut from the director Henry Hobson is low on nervy horror tropes and flesh-munching undead hoards. Instead this is a quietly melancholic study of a father-daughter

Put Morgan Freeman and Diane Keaton together in a film, and you would expect that their considerable charm and warmth as performers would be enough to gloss over any number of narrative shortcomings. Yet even Freeman at his twinkliest and Keaton at her most kooky and adorable are not enough to

The director Mia Hansen-Love collaborated with her brother, Sven, a former DJ, on Eden, a bittersweet love letter to the music of the French house scene of the 1990s. Rambling, talky and luxuriantly wistful, the film gives a perceptive survey of the self-importance and decadence of a youth

Watch our film critics Kate Muir and Wendy Ide discuss the latest big releases. Children will adore Inside Out, the beautifully drawn new Pixar animation set inside the head of an 11-year-old girl, Riley, whose father’s work is taking the family from their simple Midwestern lifestyle to San